Kim (Kimbly)
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And I think when Trump got elected, that Zucker felt a guilt about that.
And then he became head of CNN.
And then it becomes the anti-Trump network.
Yeah.
And once you as a network tilt one way or the other, it's hard to get back to the middle because then the people that are supporting the tilt get angry and they leave.
So you've got people on both sides just leaving.
So I think that was a lot behind it.
But the COVID thing, talking about we're supporting the war, I think there had to be some behind the scenes.
We're supporting the lockdown.
We're supporting the mRNA vaccines.
And the media has lost its posture of objectivity.
And I wouldn't say that every single person that works there has, because I know there was a lot of internal advocacy for fair journalism at CNN when I was there, and there had to be there after I left.
I think there still has to be...
Hands off on the media, the First Amendment.
Well, the broadcast networks are under the FCC.
Yeah.
The public airways.
So they do have some public obligation, public service obligation that they could be violating because of that.
Yeah.
And that the Fairness Doctrine was repealed.